Kidnapped contractor wanted to come home

[Barrett808]

Kidnapped contractor wanted to come home
By PATRICK CONDON, Associated Press Writer

MINNEAPOLIS - One of the four U.S. contractors abducted by insurgents in southern Iraq is a former suburban police officer described by friends and family as an "easygoing, fun-loving type of guy" who was ready to come home.

"He had that classic teddy bear disposition that made people like and care about him," St. Louis Park Police Chief John D. Luse said of Paul Reuben, who has been working as a private security contractor in Iraq.

Reuben, 39, and the others were escorting a convoy in Iraq when it was hijacked near the Kuwait border.

His twin brother, Patrick Reuben, told the Star Tribune the State Department called him Thursday with the news. He said Reuben had been in Iraq for about two years working for Crescent Security Group and intended to earn enough money to buy a house and a Hummer and then come home.

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"This time was going to be his last time over there," Suzanne Reuben said. "He was eager to come home."

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[Skittles]

1. war profiteering has its risks

yes

[Lance_Boyle]

4. But, but, but...

he only wanted a *Hummer* - it's the American mercenaries' dream, don'tcha know?

[Skittles]

13. yeah

war profiteering is war profiteering whether it's to pay for a wife's cancer treatment or to pay for a Bummer.......but........:o

[XNASA]

2. Poor guy.

Had to pay for a hummer.

[Lance_Boyle]

3. Paul Reuben? No shit?

Well, some Peewees get busted jerking off in the porno theater. Other Peewees get busted after years of getting their jollies killing brown-skinned people for money. I'm not shedding a tear for this mercenary.

[madrchsod]

5. i thought he was a truck driver

but he was a mercenary.well he`s in for it isn`t he? back in the old days us army would have there own trucks and support but this is the new military where the mercenary is the off the books new elite.

[CottonBear]

6. He was a mercenary not a contractor. It's plain and simple.

He was in it for the money and that's all. He even wanted to buy a fucking Hummer.
I do feel sorry for his family.

[WePurrsevere]

7. Link to the whole story (picture of Mr. Reuben)

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1110AP_Iraq_Abducted_Contractor.html

Undated photo of kidnapped contractor, Paul Reuben

[Cessna Invesco Palin]

17. Who cares? He was a mercenery! Cannon fodder!

He should be shot on sight. We can't have riff-raff like that running around pretending to be human, eh?

[pinerow]

8. A house and a Hummer...

bummer...

[Sequoia]

11. Kill for a Hummer.

[ChromeFoundry]

18. Is this another Hummer ad?

"Restore your manhood... Top fragger gets a Hummer."

[anotherdrew]

9. no shit, everyone with half a brain there wants to come home

we have done nothing there but kill and be killed

by the time we're out of there 3/4 of a million Iraqi's will be dead that most likely wouldn't be had we not invaded.

shame

god help us

do most Americans even begin realize what a disgusting mistake this has been?

[PassingFair]

12. A mistake is something that happens...

...accidently.

We did this on purpose.

MUCH worse.

[pretzel4gore]

15. it took the focus off 911....

which itself took the focus off the 2k election...
didya hear tomkat's getting married?

[PassingFair]

16. Forget THEM, look over there, GAYS trying to get hitched!

Run the clip of the lesbians k-i-s-s-i-n-g
at city hall over and over! Back to the polls!

[pretzel4gore]

19. omg..incidentals like 911 and the stole election

fortunately don't interfere with the big stuff, the A list stuff you mentioned! gays and happys and pinkos and sharks! backk to the polls is...well you're gdam right! god wants us to WIN goddammit! or else we are losers!

[Toots]

24. I bet if you asked a right winger which they would be most offended by

A mercernary getting his head chopped off or two guys kissing they would chose the latter. Blood excites them but boys kissing digs into their Id.

[anotherdrew]

22. well, we have yet to atone for our genocide in viet nam, so when are we even going to try?

sometimes I just want to walk away from this whole shit pile of a nation. such a shame.

"Thanks for the last and greatest betrayal of the last and greatest of human dreams."

A Thanksgiving Prayer
by William S. Burroughs

Thanks for the wild turkey and
the passenger pigeons, destined
to be shit out through wholesome
American guts.

Thanks for a continent to despoil
and poison.

Thanks for Indians to provide a
modicum of challenge and
danger.

Thanks for vast herds of bison to
kill and skin leaving the
carcasses to rot.

Thanks for bounties on wolves
and coyotes.

Thanks for the American dream,
To vulgarize and to falsify until
the bare lies shine through.

Thanks for the KKK.

For nigger-killin' lawmen,
feelin' their notches.

For decent church-goin' women,
with their mean, pinched, bitter,
evil faces.

Thanks for "Kill a Queer for
Christ" stickers.

Thanks for laboratory AIDS.

Thanks for Prohibition and the
war against drugs.

Thanks for a country where
nobody's allowed to mind the
own business.

Thanks for a nation of finks.

Yes, thanks for all the
memories-- all right let's see
your arms!

You always were a headache and
you always were a bore.

Thanks for the last and greatest
betrayal of the last and greatest
of human dreams.

[Tempest]

10. He may be coming home, in a pine box

An American hostage was found dead and two others were rescued by police, a provincial official said, a day after they were kidnapped along with another two Westerners in southern Iraq.

"Iraqi police found the body of an American where they conducted a raid in which two other Americans were freed," an official with the provincial governorate of Iraq's southern city of Basra told АFР.

One US citizen and an Austrian are yet to be traced, following the raid in an area called Al-Dawajin in Zubair district, the official said.

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=29615

[pinerow]

14. The saddest thing about this is that someone had to make a decision

to become a mercenary in order to provide what he/she should be able to provide in regular emplyment...everyone loses...!

[daleo]

20. You gets paid your money, and you takes your chances

My sympathies lie with the people who have no choice in being there.

[mitchum]

21. Well, he could PAY me to feel pity for him

as a MERCENARY, I'm sure he would understand

[Jed Dilligan]

23. Good one nt

[Earth_First]

25. Brute honesty. Exactly what we need in the situation in Iraq. n/t